Keith Brantly Quotes
You have to go through cycles of extreme poverty and suffering for a while; they are used to that...They get up early, run hard, rest drink tea, get out and run hard again. Wehn Simon Dirorie gets up at 4 a.m. - I'm dedicated, but I'm not that dedicated.
Quotes to Explore
-
It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
-
You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
-
After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
-
My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
-
The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
-
My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
-
I must say that it's easy to write nice things about Chicago because it's that kind of town.
-
I don't see myself as famous; I see myself as a normal person with a job that is not very normal. My work life is very out there and very public. But I do my best to maintain my privacy.
-
We're from Athens, GA.; we're big Bulldog fans, and I remember watching A. J. Green, David Pollock, David Greene. We were big Cowboys and Falcons fans.
-
We didn't do cotillions or anything. My family made fun of the pageants.
-
My family are observant Muslims, but I've come to the faith through an intellectual conviction, and that's something that they've taught me. It's never been forced upon me. They've given me a very strong identity as an Australian Muslim.
-
I thought Nixon was getting ganged up on, but when I heard the tapes, I was shocked and terribly saddened.
-
We went to Ibiza, and I was on Ritalin, and, for a kid who couldn't concentrate, I read a 200-page book on King Arthur, and my mum just hated it. She said it just wasn't me.
-
That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there.
-
We're all used to seeing pretty people. I want to see real people.
-
If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.
-
We put a lot of pride into our work, and to have it show on Sundays is a testament to all the work we've put in.
-
At 25, I found myself anchoring coverage of President Clinton's impeachment trial from Capitol Hill for WTVH-TV in my hometown of Syracuse, New York. I then covered Hillary Clinton's first Senate run.
-
One of the major jobs of the Harvard president is to choose the deans. I've had the opportunity to choose a considerable number of deans already, so I've learned a lot in the process in doing it.
-
We had bills to pay. My dad wasn't working, and it was tough for my mom. People were always raising the rent, so I had to work, too. Everybody in the house worked to pay the rent.
-
I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.
-
You have to go through cycles of extreme poverty and suffering for a while; they are used to that...They get up early, run hard, rest drink tea, get out and run hard again. Wehn Simon Dirorie gets up at 4 a.m. - I'm dedicated, but I'm not that dedicated.
